Wire hoop and crating machine



I. GILMOUR.

WIRE HOOP AND CRATING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 19, 1919. RENEWED JAN. 4, 1922.

1 ,41 1,488. I Patented Apr. 4, 1922.

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Fig.6} 7 wa my UNITED STATES JOHN GILMOUR, OF OWENSLBORO, KENTUCKY, ASS-IGNOR T0 GILMOUR HOGSHEAD MACHINE COMPANY, OF OWENSBORO, KENTUCKY, A CORPORATION OF KEN rnoKY.

Specification of Letters-Patent.

WIRE HOOP AND CRATING MACHINE.

Patented Apr. 4, 1922.

VApp'lication filed June 19, 1919, Serial No. 305,353., Renewed January 4, 1922. Serial No. 527,057.

To all whom it may concern. I

Be it known that I, JOHN Grnivronn, a citizen oithe United States, resident of Owensboro, in the county of Daviess and State of Kentucky, have made a certain new and use- 'inl Invention in XV ire Hoop and Crating Machine; and I declare the, following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure l is a side view or edge View of the invention.

Figure 2 is a face view of the same. Figure '3 is a detail edge or side view of a clamp lever.

Figure 4: is a detail inner face view of the same.

Figure 5 is a detail face view of the free end of one of the branches of the invention.

Figure 6 is a detail edge view of the same,

showing also the screw and the washer.

The invention has relation to improved means for applying wire'hoops to casks and crates in making them up into form, and it consists in the novel construction and combinations of parts, as hereinafter set forth;

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention, the numeral 2 designates a portion of a cask or crate around which is passed the wire 8, the lapping ends of said wire being shown as releasably engaged or clamped to the branches 4: of the tool or implement, said branches being pivoted together at one end at 5.

The branches or arms a are each longitudinally bowed and lapped at their pivotal portions at 6 which are located in different planes, being then bent or brought towards each other so as to be located in the same plane throughout intermediate portions of the lengths of the said arms, in order that the stretching means or screw 7 engaging said intermedlate portions shall be adapted to exercise its function more perfectly; the opposite or free ends of said arms being bent outwardly so that they are located in different planes whereby the lapping ends of the adapted to pass eachother. 4 a

The freeends of the arms 4 are provided with lugsor offsetsfi, extending laterally in binding wire engaged 'bysaid free. ends are opposite directions and provided each with,

a groove 9 whichis preferably arcuate, so

that when the clamping levers, lOengage the lapped ends of thewires, said ends willfbe pressed nownwardly into engagement "with said grooves to form a bend in the wire'ends and better hold the wires in place while the stretching operation is going on.

The levers 10 are provided with toothed inserts 11, which have wedge form and are let into wedge form seats or notches 12 of the levers from the inner side of the latter,

so that when the levers have their perforations 13 engaged withthe pivot pins 14, said inserts will be securely held in place being prevented from lateral movement in either direction. The clamping levers are provided with marginal flanges 15 on their work arms or ends, said flanges lapping over the grooved wire-supporting lugs or offsets 8 and guarding the lapped wireends from escape from the grooves of saidofl'sets, also guarding the erated by the hand wheel 19, the branches of,

the tool or device will be powerfully forced apart to exert tension upon the lapped ends of the binding wire and draw together or into form the staves or parts of the cask or crate being made up.

The pivot pins 14 of the clamping levers are usually or preferably fast to the branches 4: of the tool, and provided with threaded seats in their outer ends engaged by the fastoning screws 20, a lock washer 21, being an ordinary spring split washer inserted be tween the heads of said screws and the levers 10, so that the working of the levers will be prevented from causing the fastening PAT-mOmen.

by the pivotal end thereof throughouty'the stretching operation, and in order to facilitate its management and to prevent the fingers of the operator from being caught and pinched when thebranches ofthe toolare drawn together in use, the pivotal ends are m de of arcane onapproximately "semi-circular form, matching each other to provide always ahand-hold opening 23;

y This device hasbeen found very useful in practice "in the assemblage 'offcasks and cratesfquicklyand witlrlittle labo'ryan d is 20 rettdily'o erabl e by 'an unskilled person.

Hfter t e tighteningofthehoopjs comlited, thedevieejasa whole is given a one- Ealftnrmand the ends of thehoop secured to the cask or crate by staples, the operation being then completed, ready for the release of the cam levers. V r

I claim Ina device for applying wire hoops to casks and crates, an arm having a laterally extending wire-supportinglug provided with an arcuate groove, a clamping -lever fulc-rumed to one side of said arm and provided with a marginal flange overlapping the outer edge of said lug and having a wedgeform seat opening towards and closed by a lateral surface of said arm, and 'a'wedgeform toothed insert 'fit-tirig witlrin "said seat, said lateral surface of saidvarm holding-said insert in place.

testimony whereof I afiix my signature, 40 in presence of twowitnesses. 1

JOHN eILMo R.

Witnesses It-Ar BURLEW, Don Laa' L'roi s. 

